Doherty: 'Kate keeps me going'

Last updated at 11:24 09 February 2005

Rock singer Pete Doherty was enjoying his first day of freedom after being released on bail last night.

The former Libertines frontman described how thoughts of his supermodel girlfriend Kate Moss kept him going through four nights inside London's Pentonville Prison, where he was remanded on robbery and blackmail charges.

Doherty, 25, told a London newspaper: "I felt like crying but the thought of Kate on the outside kept me going."

The self-confessed drug addict added: "I'm determined to kick the habit for good for the sake of my relationship with her."

He told how he had been preparing for an idyllic evening with his girlfriend when things went wrong.

"One minute I'm waiting for Kate to arrive to join me in the Jacuzzi for a romantic evening," he said.

"The next thing I can remember is doing cold turkey in a vomit-filled cell. It was supposed to have been a great night."

He said that after his jail experience, which he described as "hell on earth", the first people he phoned were Kate, 31, and his mother Jackie.

The musician has been taken to a drug rehabilitation centre as a condition of his bail, under which he must also observe a 10pm to 7am curfew.

Doherty, who now fronts the Babyshambles band, was granted bail on Friday but complications with the £150,000 bond meant he was kept in prison over the weekend.

His manager James Mullord yesterday produced the £100,000 draft at court to add to the £50,000 already handed over by his record company.

The allegations against Doherty and co-accused, Alan Wass, 23, relate to a dispute with documentary filmmaker Max Carlish at the Rookery Hotel in Islington, north London.

The pair must appear at Snaresbrook Crown Court on February 21.

Meanwhile, singer Robbie Williams has denied a report that he had refused to perform at the Brit Awards unless Doherty was removed from the guest list and banned from attending.